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Independent
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Independent
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Connected
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Baffin
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Coronado is a recently discovered system on the borders of Liberty and Bretonia space. The IMG have been very good at concealing their mining operation there on Planet Pecos for the past few years. But as soon as a Freelance Multi-Millionaire constructed his own private station there word has steadily leaked out of Coronado's potential. Liberty was soon to gamble on the words of rumours and sent probes as well as exploration patrols throughout the system. Finding the potential of Planet Yuma on the far side of the system, Liberty officials decided to send out Survey Vessel Armstrong to watch over Yuma while proceedings that will decide which faction will get to settle on the planet and ultimatley claim it develop.
Meanwhile on Pecos the Independent Miners Guild are ever watchful of the Libertonians moving into Coronado. Seeing as they may pose a threat to their mining operations there and may decide to take over Pecos administration. The Barrier Gate Station established within the barrier rim provides a haven for all the peoples of sirius. Taking on Freeport status, it serves as a hideout for pirates and a weekend getaway for the IMG from their icy home.
However, in 819 A.S., Survey Vessel Armstrong was lost with all hands to unknown causes. Unable to risk another exploratory vessel on such a risky venture, Deep Space Engineering has not yet returned to the Coronado system. At the same time, the Colonial Republic, exiled from the Taus with the Gallic Royal Navy in pursuit, arrived in Coronado and established a new colony on Planet Pecos alongside the IMG, called New Hope. Once their civilian population was secured, the Colonials constructed Sabah Shipyard in orbit of Planet Yuma. This uncanny timing has lead many of Liberty's officials to suspect that the IMG may be in collusion with the Colonials in order to protect their mining and colonisation claims to the system, but there has been no definitive conclusion to the matter.
System Overview
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Astronomical Bodies
Stellar Objects
- Planet Salina
- Pecos
- Jericho
- Oraibi
- Socorro
- Tova
- Planet Yuma
- Planet Baja
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Industrial Development
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Faction Presence
Lawful Factions
Corporations & Guilds
Unlawful Factions
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Jump Gates and Holes
Planetary Bodies
Planet Salina
- Salina is a large hydrogen-helium gas giant. It has unusually large amounts of Nitrogen in the upper atmosphere, which glow purple when ionized by the solar wind. Salina is currently orbited by 5 large moons which are suspected to have once been independent planets which have been pulled into the gas giant's massive gravity well.
- Location: F/6
- Diameter: 53,216 km
- Mass: 9.89 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: N/A
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 15.42 km/sec
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Pecos
- No description available.
- Location: G/7
- Diameter: 6,723 km.
- Mass: 4.90 x 10e24 kg.
- Terrain: Frozen
- Temperature: -64°C to 14°C
- Escape Velocity: 7.27 km/sec
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Jericho
- Jericho is a seemingly ordinary, barren rock moon composed of Silicates with deposits of various light metals with no atmosphere. Jericho stands out on the star charts because of the significant threat it poses to unwary ships entering orbit around the Planet Salina. Visual scans indicate that there is ancient wreckage located near one of the planetary poles. However the space surrounding Jericho is heavily radiated and produces strong electromagnetic interference preventing detailed analysis and exploration of the surface.
- Location: F/7
- Diameter: 24,216 km
- Mass: 9.89 x 9e24 kg
- Terrain: Barren
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 8.42 km/sec
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Oraibi
- Oraibi is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere composed of nitrogen and krypton. Its frigid surface is composed of vast Copper deposits covered by layers of sodium oxide dust. Because of noxious surface gases, it is curently too expensive for IMG to invest in mining operations.
- Location: G/5
- Diameter: 4,076 km
- Mass: 4.84 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: N/A
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 15.42 km/sec
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Socorro
- Socorro is a terrestrial moon with a thin atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide and Argon. The surface is scorching hot, and mainly composed of Iron with deposits of Nickel. Socorro is tide-locked to the purple giant Salina, forcing the moon to forever face the Coronado sun.
- Location: F/5
- Diameter: 3,837 km
- Mass: 3.23 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: N/A
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 15.42 km/sec
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Tova
- Tova has a trace atmosphere of Carbon Dioxide and Helium. The surface is mainly composed of Silica laced with iron oxides, indicating the moon had an oxygenated atmosphere at some point in the past. Given the relative youth of the Coronado star and the significant gravity well of Tova, the atmosphere loss must have occurred very quickly, possibly the result of an extremely cataclysmic event.
- Location: E/6
- Diameter: 4,076 km
- Mass: 4.84 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: N/A
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 15.42 km/sec
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Planet Yuma
- Yuma is a lush world that is seemingly ideal for human population, with vast seas and a wide equatorial band of humid tropical terrain. Since the planet's discovery in 640 A.S. by Zoner explorers, there have been multiple colonization attempts, all of which failed. The overly aggressive native flora is capable of re-growing in cleared land at astonishing speeds and is capable of choking out synth crops, requiring any colonization attempt to be well supplied from outside sources.
- DSE surveyors based their ship, the Armstrong, in orbit of the planet. Intense bidding ensued between interested parties in Liberty once the planet was revealed. DSE also commenced construction of a docking ring for the planet, eyeing the potentially endless profit from such a lush planet.
- However the Armstrong came under increasingly frequent and powerful attacks from pirates in the system. Dozens of survey probes sent throughout the system were destroyed and it soon became clear to the Armstrong's crew that they were not welcome in the system. Pirates, utilising more advanced weaponry than previous raids, managed to destroy the Armstrong in a single concentrated assault, with all DSE crew onboard lost.
- When the Colonial Republic entered the system, the Armstrong had only recently been destroyed. Seeing an opportunity to ensure a strong claim to at least half of Coronado, the Republic constructed Sabah shipyard in orbit of the planet. Colonial survey parties, including some DSE employees who were on the surface during the attack on the Armstrong, frequently visit the planet surface.
- Location: D/2
- Diameter: 9,453 km
- Mass: 4.72 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: N/A
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 15.42 km/sec
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Planet Baja
- Baja is a large, barren desert world with a trace atmosphere of krypton and xenon. The surface is frigid, and mainly composed of silicates with deposits of magnesium, aluminum, and other light metals.
- Location: G/2
- Diameter: 6,720 km
- Mass: 6.84 x 10e24 kg
- Terrain: N/A
- Temperature: N/A
- Escape Velocity: 15.42 km/sec
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Nebula and Asteroids
Barrier Rim
- The Barrier Rim is a small segment on the edge of the Barrier Ice Field. It is the primary navigational challenge for smugglers flying contraband into Liberty through a section of space known as the Barrier Pass.
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Space Stations
- Barrier Gate is one of the few and the largest privately owned space stations in Sirius. Freelancer George Tinsley made a name for himself in underworld circles when he discovered the "Barrier Pass", a shortcut between Tau and Liberty space that completely bypasses Bretonia. Knowing full well that his secret would not remain that way for long Tinsley called in favours and invested his entire fortune into having a rock on the edge of the Barrier Ice Field hollowed out and turned into a base. When the IMG workers he had hired finished, Tinsley began to tell his peers about the new passage.
- Although retired from freelance piloting, Tinsley has become the administrator of Barrier Gate, which has grown steadily over the last decade. The station is ocupied by people on the run, Bretonian draft dodgers, and Refugees. Most of the revenue on the station is generated by smugglers and pirates, although the IMG use the station as refuge from the cold conditions on Pecos.
- As Tinsley planned, Barrier Gate has become the place where the Outcasts exchange cardamine with the criminals of Liberty, producing astounding profits. Not that his plan hasn't been without its problems. Tinsley is constantly fighting subtle attempts to take over the station from the Rogues, Junkers and the Outcasts themselves. In addition, the publication of the Barrier Pass and the new station earned Tinsley several large bounties from Molly gangs who have lost most of their cardamine smuggling business.
- The arrival of the Colonial Republic in the system has presented the station and it's inhabitants with a quandry of possibilities. The Republic has not stated its intentions in regards to the station and so poses both a potential grave threat but also a potential market for the Gate's many amenities.
- Location: B/5
- Class: Makeshift
- Gravity: Complete
- Docking: Yes
- Amenities: Yes
- Population: 4K
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- Pecos is a larger moon composed of rock and ice caught in a 37 year cycle of melting and thawing as its orbit around Salina brings it closer and then further away from the sun. The IMG established a small mining colony during 812 A.S. after completing work on Barrier Gate. Pecos possesses a breathable but dangerously thin atmosphere. Elevations over 30 meters above sea level require machine assisted breathing. Deep within the moon crust are frozen deposits of what IMG knows to be natural frozen heavy water and Pecos is on track to become one of the largest sources of deuterium in Sirius once the mining operations reach their maximum efficiency. The arrival of the Republic in Coronado has helped reinforce the Guild's position in the system while also providing a viable market to buy and sell from. Although the Guild and Republic colonies are separate, they enjoy a fair amount of interaction.
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- CLASS: Bandar Seri BegawanGRAVITY: CompleteDOCKING: YesAMENITIES: YesPOPULATION: 1.5K
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- Pecos is a larger moon composed of rock and ice caught in a 37 year cycle of melting and thawing as its orbit around Salina brings it closer and then further away from the sun. The IMG established a small mining colony during 812 A.S. after completing work on Barrier Gate. Pecos possesses a breathable but dangerously thin atmosphere. Elevations over 30 meters above sea level require machine assisted breathing. Deep within the moon crust are frozen deposits of what IMG knows to be natural frozen heavy water and Pecos is on track to become one of the largest sources of deuterium in Sirius once the mining operations reach their maximum efficiency. The arrival of the Republic in Coronado has helped reinforce the Guild's position in the system while also providing a viable market to buy and sell from. Although the Guild and Republic colonies are separate, they enjoy a fair amount of interaction.
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- Pecos is a larger moon composed of rock and ice caught in a 37 year cycle of melting and thawing as its orbit around Salina brings it closer and then further away from the sun. The IMG established a small mining colony during 812 A.S. after completing work on Barrier Gate. Pecos possesses a breathable but dangerously thin atmosphere. Elevations over 30 meters above sea level require machine assisted breathing. Deep within the moon crust are frozen deposits of what IMG knows to be natural frozen heavy water and Pecos is on track to become one of the largest sources of deuterium in Sirius once the mining operations reach their maximum efficiency. The arrival of the Republic in Coronado has helped reinforce the Guild's position in the system while also providing a viable market to buy and sell from. Although the Guild and Republic colonies are separate, they enjoy a fair amount of interaction.
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Mineable Commodities
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination - Dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) is odorless, tasteless, transparent, and absolutely essential to human life. Roughly 75% of the human body is composed of Water. Deprived of Water, most humans can only live three days. The process of dehydration is a painful one, as tissues shrivel and vessels shrink in a desperate bid by the dying body to preserve its remaining vital functions.
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